A treatise on the diseases and lameness of horses. In which is laid down a proper method of shoeing (in general) and treating the different kinds of feet. To which are added some new observations in the art of farriery, and on the nature and difference of horses. Shewing on what principles their perfection depends, and by what methods their breed may be greatly improved and amended / by W. Osmer.

Osmer, William

Date:: 1761

Credit: A treatise on the diseases and lameness of horses. In which is laid down a proper method of shoeing (in general) and treating the different kinds of feet. To which are added some new observations in the art of farriery, and on the nature and difference of horses. Shewing on what principles their perfection depends, and by what methods their breed may be greatly improved and amended / by W. Osmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$6] extreme, and fo have not pared the — foot at all.—Yet it is neceffary, that the cruft of all horfes which are fhod, {hould be pared more or lefs, accord- ing to its different degree of f{trength. —But no general method can be laid down in this refpect, becaufe the na- ture of feet differ greatly from each other, by which alone the artift is to be guided. And to prove this neceflity of paring _ the cruft, it is to be obferved, that the fuperficies of the cruft of every foot, whereon the fhoe refts, becomes rot- ten in a few weeks; fo that if a new fhoe be fet upon an unfound founda- tion, it will not ftand frm or long — The cruft alfo, in fuch cafe, will fhell | or break away. Now where the foot is deep and hollow, the. cruft is generally thick$

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